How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
By: Jamal Greene
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It i…
Want to Read $ 9.49"Strong rights protection is far from harmless. The proliferation of strong rights can frustrate the democratic will and erode the solidarity of communities. Judicial dominion over constitutional rights can absolve the rest of us of our responsibility to take rights seriously, leading our moral institutions to atrophy and eventually to decay. Rights can breed resentment of those who win the Constitutions favor at the expense of others"-Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
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1. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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2. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
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3. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
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5.00
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4. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
By: None
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Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more
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5. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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6. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
By: Michael J. Sandel
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for… read more
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7. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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8. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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9. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
10. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
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4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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4.18
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13. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
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"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
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14. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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4.37
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A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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15. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
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16. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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17. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
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18. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
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19. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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21. The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
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22. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
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23. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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"If Google isn’t responsible for its algorithm, then who is?"-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"Where men shape technology, they shape it to the exclusion of women, especially Black women."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
24. John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
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3.78
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25. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells t… read more
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"Such a colossal irony: after socialists and Communists in the 1930s and then the New Left in the 1960s had tried and failed to achieve a radical class-based reordering of the American political econo…"-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
"...In all this, financialization has done what people back in the 1950s and '60s and '70s worried and warned that the Communists would do if they took over: centralize control of the economy, turn Am…"-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
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26. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
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4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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27. The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change
By: Geoff Dembicki
4.06
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28. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
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4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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29. The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
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4.41
Format: 817 pages, Hardcover
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"in 1775 there arose a remarkable civic society that aimed to end slavery itself. The society was formed not by Johnson, nor in Johnson’s vaunted London, nor indeed anywhere in Britain proper, but rat…"-Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
30. How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
By: Jamal Greene
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31. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
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